The African Commission on Human and PeoplesÂ’ Rights has adopted a model law to inspire and guide African legislators to enact access to information legislation, to usher in an era of greater openness.

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has secured bench warrants for the arrest of directors and owners of 17 companies for defaulting in the deduction and payment of their employeesÂ’ social security contributions.

President John Dramani Mahama has inaugurated one out of the three turbines of the 400 megawatt capacity Bui Hydroelectricity dam, to add 133 megawatts to the national electricity grid.

A former Member of Parliament for the Asokwa East Constituency (now Asawasi), has challenged the Bishop of the Obuasi Methodist Diocese, Rt. Rev. Stephen Richard Bosomtwi-Ayensu, to make clear who truly fitted the title of Asomdweehene.

Mention the word "clitoris" and some people get touchy -- and not in a good way.

The drawing of fuel and other allowances is a normal practice in any business setup, but the quantum of money being paid as allowances to the directors of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) has raised eyebrows, especially, when the company has come under public scrutiny over alleged dubious transactions going on there.

President John Dramani Mahama has reviewed a ceremony to handover the guard duties at the seat of government, the Flagstaff House, from the Navy to the Infantry Brigade.

The Effutu Municipal Assembly is facilitating the process of setting up an oil refinery between Nsuekyir and Gyangyanadze by the Kalahari Investment Company Limited.

A SUSPECTED armed robber, believed to be a member of a notorious highway robbery gang who operates on the Accra-Tema Motorway, was in the early hours of yesterday shot dead on the motorway, when he engaged a police patrol team in a shoot-out.

The Mayor of Accra Alfred Oko Vanderpuye has said that his outfit will arrest all contractors and individuals who are caught engaging in illegal electricity connection at market centres in the capital.

Five suspected thieves were yesterday arrested for looting items belonging to traders whose stores were gutted by fire at Kantamanto market at the Central Business District of Accra early Sunday morning.

Judges of the Supreme Court who are hearing the 2012 presidential election petition Monday went to town in their condemnation of social commentators, lawyers and journalists for unfairly criticising their work.

A SCIENCE teacher at Brekumanso, a farming community near Asamankese in the West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region, is in the grip of the Asamankese Police for raping a 22-year-old American volunteer, who is a colleague at the Brekumanso L/A Junior High School on April foolÂ’s day.

The Garu-Tempane District Assembly at its general meeting last Friday, failed to elect a presiding member (PM).

Everyone in Ghana is waiting for our leaders to overcome their disadvantages of youthfulness or inexperience by studying history. The most important subject for a young leader is history. A young person does not have the benefit of experience. He has to tap into the experiences of others. His only chance of avoiding certain mistakes is to study those who went before him.

A former Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, Mr Samuel Sarpong, was once quoted by the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper as saying that the Kumasi metropolis, unlike Accra, is very safe from flooding.

Rent charges have become a perennial issue in Ghana, especially in the metropolitan and fast developing cities.

A memoir of resilience in the face of political, societal and economic challenges, Never Say Die! is interesting and fast-paced.

The mediation committee set up by the Sunyani Polytechnic (S-Poly) Council to investigate and mediate in the fracas between the registrar and the S-Poly branch of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has exonerated the registrar from all allegations levelled against him by members of the teachers association.

Reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Kantamanto Market in Accra is to begin in July this year.